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Counterterrorism and the state : Western responses to 9/11 / Dorle Hellmuth

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  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • Counterterrorism and the state : Western responses to 9/11 / Dorle Hellmuth
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) : University of Pennsylvania press, cop. 2016
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XIII-378 p.) ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 978-0-8122-4743-5
  • 0-8122-4743-4
EAN
  • 9780812247435
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 327.117
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Notes bibliogr. p. [289]-353. Index
Note de thèses et écrits académiques
  • Texte remanié de Thèse de doctorat ? Catholic University of America 201? Effects of government structures on foreign policy decision making : counter-terrorism responses in Germany, the United States, Great Britain and France after 9/11
Résumé ou extrait
  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "Dorle Hellmuth argues that the nature of state responses to terrorism is shaped by the particular governmental framework and process within which counterterrorism measures are decided. Using four Western democracies as case studies, Hellmuth measures effects of government structures on counterterrorism decision-making processes and outcomes. In doing so, she examines how similar or different the responses have been in four parliamentary and presidential systems, and clears up common misperceptions about domestic counterterrorism efforts on both sides of the Atlantic. Each of Hellmuth's four case studies reviews the official constitutional powers and informal relationships between executive and legislative branches, outlines decision-making processes leading to counterterrorism policies and reforms since 9/11, and summarizes how structural factors influenced those processes. By measuring and comparing structural effects, and by going beyond the common U.S. and British focus to include counterterrorism decision-making in Germany and France, Hellmuth shows that there are important similarities between those governments designed to constrain executive power (Germany and the United States) and those that facilitate executive power (France and Great Britain). Her analysis further demonstrates that in presidential systems executive and legislative branches have incentives to produce a steady stream of reforms, that presidents have more opportunities than leaders of parliamentary systems to expand their unilateral powers during times of crisis, and that choices designed to strengthen presidential positions influence the direction, nature, and scope of institutional reform. Understanding the nature, scope, and trends of national decision-making processes in Western democracies, Hellmuth contends, is imperative to identifying new mechanisms for containing transnational terrorist networks beyond national borders."
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